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Outward people are not in the least like inner people. External people talk for others, and only listen to themselves. Internal people don’t say anything at all, they listen to the wind and the waves, to streams and strings, to hail and harvest, and then they store all that they have heard in the back room. Internal people have another room for words, a front room. Cold words are kept in a fridge there, warm words are kept by the heart. Because these internal people have a heart, you see, a small heart which feels the cold, as all hearts do. The hearth of grand words can warm an external person’s heart, but not that of an internal person.
Sometimes the two meet, an external person and an internal person, and others think that they get on well together: the external person can talk and
